Better than that, it gives you an intuitive feel for numbers as well as having to actually think about what the answer should be, eg, any number multilied by an even number will be even.
I designed computer chips, then later on controllers for spacecraft and don't own a cellphone. I'm fairly normal (I think, but don't we all). I had one, but never used it and it got lost.
I actually bought a slide rule last week (coincidence seeing this here) after hearing about them my whole life. I think I taught myself how to use it OK, I'm still practicing, but how do you get that level of precision? I'm lucky if I get within 5, eg 47*23=~1080. I know it has to end in '1', so I guess 1081. Is that how it's supposed to work?
The people who took over slashdot in the last 5 years don't know science. And it's spelled with an exclamation mark. I knew more science in grade school than most posts I see regularly here now.
The media needs to do whatever it can to make a profit, even if that include making stuff up. Sure after a while some may stop listening to them, but it's a calculus problem to maximize the final value.
Sure they did. They were limited by the technology to what types of decisions, but they were certainly self controlled otherwise would have crashed immediately after takeoff. Even the v2 had limited self control for the boost phase after which it was ballistic (uncontrolled).
What else could you buy at the time that had preemptive multitasking? That was pretty special. You didn't have to write your app specifically to cooperate with every other program on the system.
And the hardware requirements were no worse than NT which wouldn't even be out for a couple years. The GUI was far superior. The original nt had the same win3 gui and didn't get a win95 gui until 96 or 97.
Funny how IBM didn't want to change that because it could have potentially led to problems like push or radio buttons being drawn on the screen after the window frame was drawn and they were afraid that might confuse people. I was thinking about this exact case last week as I watched firefox draw the screen with with exactly this effect. I wonder what those IBM people (many of whom i suspected of secretly working for Microsoft) would say to that. Maybe it was ahead of its time for the market it was going for.
I did that. Totally worth it. I was making >>$100k, saved almost all my money for a few years, have paid off everything, no debt, live in a cheaper (but very nice area and house). Travel and play a lot. Material things are very inexpensive right now thanks to cheap imports. Looking at buying a large telescope right now and building some electronics for imaging.
Beats making all kinds of money, but having no time to spend it on anything or being able to take off for a few months on a diving trip to Costa Rica or climbing trip to South America.
Kites are unmanned aerial aircraft and have been used in warfare for centuries. Not only kites, but balloons. The only deaths on US soil in WWII were caused by a Japanese balloon bomb.
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Better than that, it gives you an intuitive feel for numbers as well as having to actually think about what the answer should be, eg, any number multilied by an even number will be even.
I designed computer chips, then later on controllers for spacecraft and don't own a cellphone. I'm fairly normal (I think, but don't we all). I had one, but never used it and it got lost.
I actually bought a slide rule last week (coincidence seeing this here) after hearing about them my whole life. I think I taught myself how to use it OK, I'm still practicing, but how do you get that level of precision? I'm lucky if I get within 5, eg 47*23=~1080. I know it has to end in '1', so I guess 1081. Is that how it's supposed to work?
I noticed that too. Pleasant surprise from the fluff that's usually posted here.
The people who took over slashdot in the last 5 years don't know science. And it's spelled with an exclamation mark. I knew more science in grade school than most posts I see regularly here now.
Matthew 5:5
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Some of the smaller drones will fly through something as small as chicken wire.
the moral mind
It's a matter of how soon you give up looking.
if you don't have a facebook account?
Works for google.
OT...Did you know that Thomas Dolby (She Blinded Me with Science) is member 1 of the flat earth society?
The media needs to do whatever it can to make a profit, even if that include making stuff up. Sure after a while some may stop listening to them, but it's a calculus problem to maximize the final value.
From an old slashdot story: Build Your Own Cruise Missile
NZ Man Builds Own Cruise Missile For Less That $5,000
Sure they did. They were limited by the technology to what types of decisions, but they were certainly self controlled otherwise would have crashed immediately after takeoff. Even the v2 had limited self control for the boost phase after which it was ballistic (uncontrolled).
Energy, not power.
See German Fi-103, US JB-2 Loon and Japanese Fu-Go.
Those that do not now history are doomed to repeat it.
if ( strncmp(argc, "123" ) exit(2);
What else could you buy at the time that had preemptive multitasking? That was pretty special. You didn't have to write your app specifically to cooperate with every other program on the system. And the hardware requirements were no worse than NT which wouldn't even be out for a couple years. The GUI was far superior. The original nt had the same win3 gui and didn't get a win95 gui until 96 or 97.
Funny how IBM didn't want to change that because it could have potentially led to problems like push or radio buttons being drawn on the screen after the window frame was drawn and they were afraid that might confuse people. I was thinking about this exact case last week as I watched firefox draw the screen with with exactly this effect. I wonder what those IBM people (many of whom i suspected of secretly working for Microsoft) would say to that. Maybe it was ahead of its time for the market it was going for.
Pretty sure that was a real commercial.
Beats making all kinds of money, but having no time to spend it on anything or being able to take off for a few months on a diving trip to Costa Rica or climbing trip to South America.
Sounds like you know very little about this subject. Why are you commenting?
Kites are unmanned aerial aircraft and have been used in warfare for centuries. Not only kites, but balloons. The only deaths on US soil in WWII were caused by a Japanese balloon bomb.